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Christmas Quotations

"Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.
(Helen Steiner Rice)

"Christmas doesn't come from a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more...."
(Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas)

"What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.
It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace."
(Agnes M. Pahro)

"Oh! lovely voices of the sky
Which hymned the Saviour's birth,
Are ye not singing still on high,
Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?
(Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans)

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day.
Don't clean it up too quickly.
(Andy Rooney)

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.
(Phillips Brooks)

"We must look to Mary's example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God.
Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement ..."
(Calvin Miller, The Christ of Christmas: Readings for Advent)

What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.
It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.
(Agnes M. Pharo)

"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind.
To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas."
(Calvin Coolidge)

"We hear the beating of wings over Bethlehem and a light that is not of the sun or of the stars shines in the midnight sky.
Let the beauty of the story take away all narrowness, all thought of formal creeds. Let it be remembered as a story that has
happened again and again, to men of many different races, that has been expressed through many religions, that has been called
by many different names. Time and space and language lay no limitations upon human brotherhood."
(Maud van Buren)

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
(Charles Dickens)

"Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers,
but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated.
One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas."
(Ronald Reagan)

"I am here, forever, to protect you. To help you, to love you. To keep you happy."
It was an oath that every elf knew, but never had to say. There was no prompt.
At a certain age, two elves of nearly the same name would meet. Then one would say the oath,
simply because they felt compelled to. It was more than a promise; it was a feeling.
One that every single elf was born with."
(Kristina Aziz)

"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred,
and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time."
(Laura Ingalls Wilder)

"Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone".
(Charles Schulz)

"The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect!"
(Charles N. Barnard)

"Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts."
(Janice Maeditere)

"Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. "
(Mary Ellen Chase)

"Christmas ... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart."
(Freya Stark)

"My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others.
Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?"
(Bob Hope)

"Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl.
But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever."
(Bess Streeter Aldrich, Song of Years)

"Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry making. It is more than that.
It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things. The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.
(J. C. Penney)

"Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone."
(Charles M. Schulz)

"I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

"Christmas is the day that holds all time together."
(Alexander Smith)

"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us
that we're here for something else besides ourselves."
(Eric Sevareid)

"A man wrapped up in himself always suffocates.
But his loved ones will forever hold in their hearts the memory of that Christmas."
(Benson Bruno)

"Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day."
(Helen Steiner Rice)

"A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together."
(Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home)

"The light of the Christmas star to you. The warmth of home and hearth to you.
The cheer and goodwill of friends to you. The hope of a child-like heart to you.
The joy of a thousand angels to you. The love of the Son and God's peace to you."
(Sherryl Woods, An O'Brien Family Christmas)

"Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. "
(Washington Irving)

"Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush,
the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given -
when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children,
the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes."
(Joan Winmill Brown)

"One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day.
Don't clean it up too quickly."
(Andy Rooney)

"I know what I really want for Christmas.
I want my childhood back.
Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try.
I know it doesn't make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway? It is about a child,
of long ago and far away, and it is about the child of now. In you and me. Waiting behind the door of or
hearts for something wonderful to happen. A child who is impractical, unrealistic,
simpleminded and terribly vulnerable to joy."
(Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten)

"For Christmas this year, try giving less. Start with less attitude.
There's more than enough of that in the world as it is - and people will usually just give it back anyway!"
(Anne Bristow)

"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. "
(Roy L. Smith)

"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. "
(Norman Vincent Peale)

"O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine!
To fold a world in the embrace of God!
" For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulders;
and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. - Isaiah 9:6

"And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name,
let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars,
and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans--and all that lives and move upon them.
He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel
about and all that we have misused--and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins,
He came down to earth and gave us Himself."
(Sigrid Undset)

"When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions
- give off the greatest glow of happiness.
(Bob Hope)

"It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs.
Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart."
(Marjorie Holmes)

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days,
recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
(Charles Dickens)

"My parents always said that knowledge was the best gift they could give me,
probably because they were too cheap to buy me Christmas or Birthday presents."
(Jarod Kintz)

"Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush,
the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when Christmas Day comes
there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes."
(Joan Winmill Brown)

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
(Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge)

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
(Harlan Miller)

"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love."
(Hamilton Wright Mabie)

Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first.
The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring
into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years...
Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.
(George Matthew Adams)

"As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is."
(Eric Sevareid)

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